CANADIANS EULOGISED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 273, 28 April 1915, Page 5

CANADIANS EULOGISED.

TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES. PRUSSIANS RUN LIKE COWARDS. London, April 2G. Sir John French informed General Alderson that he had reported the Canadians for their splendid behaviour. Lord Kitchener replied that the gallantry anil "determination of the Canadians in a position was highly appreciated iy the people of England. "A Canadian states: "After the lina was broken on our left we were sent northward to Ypres without food or water and in wet equipment, each with 400 rounds of ammunition. We waited .from early in the day till nearly midnight, when two battalions were ordered to charge the enemy 500 yards away. 1 The artillery mowed us down like sheep. There were '2500 Canadians attacking '7OOO Germans in a wood full of maxima. Before the attack some few shells were fired thither. We expelled the enemy ( from trenches in front of the wood and 'went right through and about 500 yards to the other side. Then we were almost surrounded and retired to the captured trenches, where we dug ourselves in and remained overnight, .the enemy shelling us with shrapnel. "Wo filed out to make room for the. reinforcements. In our advance we were enfiladed by heavy fire. Both sides of the Prussian Guards fronting us -ran like cowards. IWe recovered three French howitzers which wc blew up, and next recaptured our 4.7 in. guns. We surrounded at that point sixty Germans, of whom we bayoneted forty-five. The oliicer blew out his brains. We were unable to estimate the number of German, slain. Their searchlights were busy the whole night picking up the dead." Ottawa, April 2ft.

Thousands of messages have been dispatched to France from the Dominion congratulating the Canadians on their gallant stand. The press points out that the Canadians proved ready to die for .the Motherland at all times. The oicwspapers prophesy that recruiting in the Dominion will he greatly stimulated, although even now thousands aj« offering whom the Government are not able to accept.

GERMAN ATROCITJES AT DINANT, A BELGIAN LADY!S DIARY. London, April .21). The diary of a Belgian lady, who has since died in England, states that the Germans, when entering Dinant, were mostly drunk. They set fire to houses and pillaged shamefully, and engaged the French with bayonets ill the .streets.

When the bombardment commenced women and e'uldren fled terrified, nuns holding up their.hands and attempting to hearten (hundreds, who, from extremest terror and fatigue, were lying on mattresses. Babies in cradles were left in the streets, and .a bare-footed woman, expecting a child, and clad only in chemise and petticoat, was among those who were compelled to wateli their unarmed husbands and sons shot.

Many women took refuge in the hill caves, and several lost their Mason .as the result of their infants djjing. The Germans discovered them and compelled them to march in front of the army.. The French camion ceased firing, and the women, lined up facing the German riflemen, appealed for mercy. The officer replied: ''Dinant fired on our soldiers and I am ordered to leave nothing in Dinant." Heart-breaking farewells were taken, when an officer rode up at the last 'moment and spared them. They were inarched to a camp where they saw immense braziers full of corpses. They were imprisoned in a c'mreh, and in response to the appeals of the priests were more kindly treated.

GERMANS SHELL RED CROSS. A CANADIAN'S STORY. London, April 2(1. A Canadian states that the Germans continuously shelled t"ie dressing station, despite the Red Cross flag. We were 48 hours without food, some for 72. 'We lost the bulk of our officers. The stations are full of wounded. It was a fine sight to see the Indian and French Lancers. Crowds of British troops are proceeding to hold the position we wau. REPRISALS DEMANDED. Paris, April 26. Les Delmts calls on the military to discard all false sentiment and adopt immediate reprisals for the use of poisonous gases. FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT. London, April 20. * The French Embassy states that the British stopped two attacks debouching from Passchendaele and Brodsundcv. •The Germans violently bombnrded Ypres. The battle -of the Meuse heights is developing. The Germans, after their repulse at Calonne, attacked towards St. Remy with fie object of retaking Les Eparges, but were repulsed after a vigorous bombardment and violent combat.